Author of books:Bret Harte: Argonaut and Exile (1931)Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party (1936)John Phoenix (1937)East of Giants (1939)Doctor's Oral (1939)Take your Bible in One Hand: The Life of William Henry Thomes (1939)Storm (1941)Names on the Land (1945)Man: An Autobiography (1946)Fire (1948)Earth Abides (1949)Sheep Rock (1951)U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America (1953)American Ways of Life (1954)To California by Covered Wagon (1954)The Years of the City (1955)N.A. 1: The North-South Continental Highway (1957)Pickett's Charge (1959)The California Trail (1962)Committee of Vigilance (1964)Good Lives (1967)Not So Rich as You Think (1968)A Concise Dictionary of American Place-Names (1970)Names on the Globe (1975)American Given Names (1979)